Scottish skills strategy backed by Dawnfresh Seafoods
Dawnfresh Seafoods has thrown its weight behind a strategy to recruit skilled staff for the Scottish food and drink manufacturing sector.
Archives for February 5, 2014
Ocado profit doubt ‘casts long shadow’ as losses rise
Rising pre-tax losses at Ocado, the online grocer and logistics business, are casting “a long shadow over the firm”, according to one retail consultant, as the firm’s commercial director announces his decision to leave the firm.
OPINION
Editor's view: Sugar is the new battleground
As I predicted in my leading article in the November 2013 issue of Food Manufacture, sugar is now the next battleground. However, little did I realise the lengths sugar's detractors would go to in their attempts to demonise this ingredient which, as well...
Warburtons’ ad banned after Premier Foods complains
A national press advert from Warburtons – stating ‘No.1 Now London's biggest bakers’ – has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), after complaints from Premier Foods and Allied Bakeries.
Weather damage costs 2 Sisters £500k+
2 Sisters Food Group faces repairs costing more than £500,000 after a freak tidal surge swamped poultry farms in Lincolnshire in December last year.
Real Good Food Company tackles sugar woes
Napier Brown’s Immingham sugar plant is ready for commissioning and should help the firm offset the negative impact of plunging sugar prices, according to owner Real Good Food Company (RGFC).
Face the ‘unprecedented’ food labelling challenge
Food and drink manufacturers face “an unprecedented challenge” to comply with the Food Information for Consumers Regulation (FIR), to be enforced on December 14 2014, Stephen Spice, Campden BRI’s new head of regulatory affairs warned.
‘Bring food production back to Britain’: David Cameron
British firms that have relocated production plants from overseas to the UK have been commended by Prime Minister David Cameron.